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There's a new bios in sapphire website "ONLY for P/N : 288-4E146-T01SA Other P/N cannot flash. The new bios only open the Options to adjust the core clock up to 1000 Mhz and memory clock up to 1300 Mhz in Catalyst Control Center"
Sadly still no way to overvolt the card, there's some talk on msi afterburner forums that this non reference cards don't have adjustable voltage regulators.. still not sure about it. Can get my 5850 to 925/1210 stable without hearing the card though :)
http://www.tcmagazine.com/tcm/news/h...ores-next-weekQuote:
ASUS MATRIX 5870 Platinum to hit EU stores next week?
Asus' first ROG (Republic of Gamers) series DirectX 11-supporting graphics card, the Matrix 5870 has been unveiled a couple of months ago but, as just announced, it will become available in European retail/e-tail next month, bearing a recommended price tag of €449.
ASUS MATRIX 5870 Platinum Review
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/...eo_card_review
Radeon HD 5870 Shootout - When Juggernauts Clash
Reviewed in this roundup:-
* ASUS Matrix 5870 Platinum 2GB
* Gigabyte HD 5870 Super OC 1GB
* HIS HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo 1GB
* MSI R5870 Lightning 1GB
* PowerColor PCS++ HD 5870 1GB
* Sapphire Vapor-X HD 5870 2GB
* XFX HD 5870 XXX Edition 1GB
http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/features/view/33995
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=24746Quote:
ASUS HD 5870 MATRIX Platinum: taking the fight to GTX 480
It's been a little quiet on the graphics-card front since NVIDIA released the GeForce 400-series roughly two months ago. ATI hasn't been perturbed by NVIDIA's newest GPUs and therefore is no rush to launch a new architecture or to lower prices on its Radeon 5-series cards.
Drilling down, ASUS is no stranger to having multiple SKUs for both companies' GPUs. Just peruse the catalogue and you're presented with no less than seven Radeon HD 5870s. Buying the right graphics card isn't as straightforward as it may seem on first glance.
As we're eight months into ATI's flagship architecture and a number of partners have released custom-designed cards, ASUS has now done the same with the £400 MATRIX Platinum. We take a look at the pre-overclocked card and make sense of it all.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...on-review.htmlQuote:
ASUS HD 5870 MATRIX Platinum Review
With Gigabyte, MSI and Sapphire all releasing high-end, pre-overclocked HD 5870 cards, it was only a matter of time until ASUS joined in on the party. Released under the Republic of Gamers series, their HD 5870 Matrix comes in two flavors: a base model with a boatload of features and a Platinum Edition that adds an overclocked core into the mix. In this review we take a look at the flagship Platinum card and find out if its asking price of $500 is justified.....
http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo//i...id=84&Itemid=1Quote:
ASUS ROG Matrix 5870 Platinum Edition
The graphics market has for the longest time pretty much been dominated by AMD's offerings in the 5700 and 5800 series. However, nVidia is not dead, in fact, the Fermi-based graphics cards are poised to rekindle some of the "brand loyalty" that was based on the superior performance and corporate marketing of nVidia. In other words, don't sit on your ass just because the competition has had an unlucky streak. The best thing to do in that case is to create internal competition or fragmentation of the market through the channel partners that take a reference design, re-spin it to their liking based on cost, performance, noise suppression, features or any combination of the four mentioned parameters. The result is a variety of offerings that was never achieved when ATI still had their iron grip on the RADEON series and we don't miss those days where the main differentiator was the color of the heat sink anodizing.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/gra...-card-review/1Quote:
Asus Matrix Radeon HD 5870 Graphics Card Review
The Asus Matrix Radeon HD 5870 is the kind of graphics card that likes to be noticed. If it were a person it’d be wearing the loudest shirt it could find and be driving the most expensive convertible car it could afford. Subtlety is a dirty word for the Asus Matrix HD 5870. We hope you like your graphics cards pimped.
Asus has really gone to town on the humble HD 5870, as the Matrix sports a factory overclock, 2GB of RAM and more enthusiast features than you can shake a stick at. The show starts with the cooler of the Matrix, which is moulded in an attractive sunburst design and trimmed in the traditional ATI red and black. It’s a chunky beast and feels solid and capable.